Deefit

I blind bought a 6ml bottle of this based on a lot of positive reviews. At irst application, I could pick up most of the notes mentioned here. But after about 15 minutes or so, a metallic smell made its way into the fragrance. It stayed there or quite some time and I didn't really care for it. It made the fragrance smell weird somehow. After a while the weird smell fades away and I like it from there on, but it hardly has any lifespan or sillage left at that point. I get weak to fairly moderate sillage and weak longevity, 2 hours max.

This is an older review of mine.

I was a bit anxious to try this one and somehow I'm glad that I have. I now know this fragrance is NOT for me, at all. The opening is very strong, but it softened, as mentioned by others. But I just can't get passed the strong medicinal smell. The cinnamon is strong in the opening, along with the cloves and nutmeg. After that I get a very strong honey vibe, but not in a sweet way, more like cough syrup. I washed it off after half an hour, I gave up on liking this.

I can understand it was a "different" perfume in 1994. It's still different now, but we are used to a lot more different kinds of perfume so we are less surprised now than 20 years ago. It is still different though and it will not be for everybody. It's not an everyday scent, but I could see people wearing it. It's not weird, it's just very strong and it has a very big love or hate factor.

This is an older review, as I got my bottle about a year ago. I've edited my initial review a little.

Being a rather expensive blind buy I was really hoping for it to be good..

Luckily for me, it is. It smells really good so far! It may not be the most unique fragrance out there, but it is elegant and classy. A nice and warm scent! Fan di Fendi Pour Homme isn't sold in my country, so that makes me feel even more special when wearing it.

I love the opening, very nice and elegant. But I wished the scent stayed more linear from the opening on, but it doesn't. But over the past few months, I've grown to love the heart and base as well. Though I still find it a pity that the basil and citrus notes fade pretty far into the background. From 30 minutes on, this does not change anymore, at all.

During the heart I get a soft leather (nothing like the leather in various niche offerings), but the rest of the composition works really well with it. It's very woody with the cedar. and the cardamom adds a certain warmth to it. It has a somewhat dry smell, if this makes any sense to you.

You get a decent projection for about 3 hours, which is one of the few gripes I have with this. But it does last quite long. The other day I could actually pick up the warm leathery smell around me after about 6 hours or so. It is a bit subtle, but it is definitely there. I've found that this fatigues the nose quite a bit and after 5-6 hours I used to think this was almost gone, but apparantly others could still smell it quite moderately.

..or so the card accompanying my sample says. We'll see about that.

I spray some on the back of my hand and wait a few seconds. I take a deep breath, exhale and then take short whiffs. My first thought is that I've smelled this before. Not specifically, but generally. My first impression would be that this is a rather generic fragrance. But in all fairness, I let the top notes settle and wait for the heart. Vetiver on top of a leather base. For comparison I have sprayed some of Fendi's Fan di Fendi Pour Homme on the back of my other hand. Why? It is a personal favorite of mine and it's a leather based fragrance as well.

Just Cavalli Him has a slight sweetness during the opening and the first 15 minutes or so. After that, it settles into a somewhat sharp, woody scent. But underneath lies a warm and soft leather. And that is pretty much it. I've smelled leather in fragrances before. This hardly comes close to what I've smelled before, it is extremely soft. When I bring my nose back to my other wrist, I am surprised by how strong the Fendi still is at this point. The Cavalli is so much softer and dare I say weaker.

So now we're 30 minutes in and my initial impression hasn't changed. The Cavalli is generic and synthetic. I usually enjoy a simple and straightforward composition, but in this case it is just boring. The sweetness is mostly gone now, but somehow I find it hard to believe that this is just vetiver on leather. My nose seems to pick up other notes as well. I do get more and more of the leather now, although it's soft and synthetic. When I put my nose back on the Fendi on my other hand, I also get a synthetic leather, but the rest of the composition works really well with it. It's a lot more woody with the cedar and the cardamom really adds warmth.

Back to the Cavalli again. Nothing changes my mind about this scent. It is a nice scent but it's very soft/weak. Usually I try not to think in labels, but I feel this will be worn more likely by people under 25, 30 max. It's not a bad scent and it has a slight playfulness to it, but the generic smell feels a bit cheap, it's almost ashaming. A lot of inexpensive drugstore fragrances have a similar smell. I looked up retailprices for this and personally would find it a waste of money. There are other fragrances out there that have a similar scent (again, it's not a bad scent) or vibe in general but will at least provide you with decent projection and a nice sillage trail, probably at half the price or less.

It is what it claims to be, black deer musk. It is very dirty and very animalic, a bit too strong for my taste. I immediately washed it off, as this is not for me. And I dare not apply it again. So now I have a 6 ml bottle of concentrated perfume oil up for swap or sale.